From Aug to Apr, I shared an apartment with a then "friend" of mine. She broke the lease first, because she was getting married (or suppose to be) and moved out the end of Mar, so I was responsible for a month of rent for April by myself. Which I was fine with, but because she still had stuff in the apartment when she left, she agreed to still pay half of the utilities in exchange for storage until her new place could accommodate all her furniture, boxes, etc. I agreed, and we both paid the final month's utilities.
I was then moving out the end of April, and she slowly started moving her stuff out. Throughout my final week in the apartment, I made it a priority to call her to come and pick up a few boxes she still had at the apartment, I even called her fiance, and her parents, both of who said they'd let her know.
Then the final day, even though she said she'd come and help clean up the apartment before we handed back the keys, she calls and tells me she cant make it because of work, and that her fiance is coming to get her stuff and leave her set of keys with me. I told her that I had to have the keys back before the office closed, and she said that was fine.
Well as you can guess, I waited until the last possible moment I could to return the keys, and then because her boxes were still there, I packed them with my stuff, and moved it all into my mom's garage since I was traveling abroad for a few months. I called my ex-roomie, and left a message saying that the landlord needed her keys back or she'd be fined a lost-key charge, and that she had boxes at my mom's house she could pick up.
While I was away, she called my mom and told her that I skipped out on my half of one of the utility bills, and asked my mom for the money, my mom told her to contact me when I got back because there was nothing she could do. (Thank goodness.) I heard back from my mom when I got home, and called to company to make sure they had received my payment because it had gone through my bank.
So after all of this, 2 years later, I still had her c**p in my mom's garage, over and over I tried to get her to pick up her stuff, I even asked her if she wanted me to drop it off at her new place, but she said no, she'd come get it.
Another year passed, and my mom was cleaning her garage out for her yearly donations of old clothes, toys, etc. She found my roomie's boxes, and asked if she was ever coming to get them. I said no, not likely, since it's been three years, obviously her baby toys, clothes, and brand new books, aren't important to her. So my mom donated all the clothes and toys to a homeless shelter, and the books to a library.
Now after all this, another year has passed, and she FINALLY calls for her c**p. After almost 4 years, I told her that we didn't have them anymore, and she says she's going to sue for the amount of her donated items, and the amount is inflated so much it's ridiculous.
Can she actually get anything from me or my mom after 4 years of us trying to get her c**p to her?
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